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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and Vanessa Redgrave star with Academy Award nominees Glenn Close, Winona Ryder in an director Bille August's vision of Isabel Allende's passionate, epic novel of love, family and romance THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a 19-year-old aspiring actress without a care in the world. Her family watches her discover friends, new love and a passion for the theater, all the while without her realizing that time is running out. Legendary French actress Sandrine Kiberlain makes her directorial debut with this allegorical coming-of-age drama set in Nazi-occupied France, that is in turns enchanting and devastating, anchored by a star-making lead...
6) Afterimage
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Polish
Description
Legendary director Andrzej Wajda's final film is a passionate portrait of renowned avantgarde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who challenged Stalinist orthodoxy. In post-war Poland, Strzeminski works as a professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Lodz. His students treat him like the "messiah of modern painting," but university authorities and the Ministry of Culture have a differing opinion. Refusing to comply with Party regulations, he is...
7) Sunshine
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The fortunes of a family of Hungarian Jews are followed over the course of nearly 150 years in this epic historical drama, with leading man Ralph Fiennes playing three different roles.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Subtitled “Chronicle of a Present Absentee,” this humorous, heartbreaking film (the final installment in a trilogy that includes Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention) is set among the Israeli Arab community and shot largely in homes and places in which Suleiman’s family once lived. Inspired by his father’s diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director’s own recollections,...
9) Kaddish
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
In Steve Brand’s timeless documentary KADDISH – as bracing as any fiction – we witness a candid portrait of a young Jew coming to terms with his father's traumatic history. It is the story of the stormy yet loving relationship between writer and Jewish activist Yossi Klein and his father Zoltan, who had survived the Holocaust’s devastation of Hungarian Jewry by hiding in a hole in the ground for six months while his parents – Yossi’s grandparents...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Russian
Description
From Production I.G, the studio behind Ghost in the Shell and Miss Hokusai, and director Mizuho Nishikubo comes the award-winning historical drama, GIOVANNI'S ISLAND.Junpei and Kanta live in Shikotan, a rural fishing village that has been isolated from turmoil during World War II. The brothers are named after Giovanni and Campanella from their father’s favorite book, Night on the Galactic Railroad, which becomes a source of solace in the aftermath...
11) In Harm's Way
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed American morale. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, risking it all, decided to bomb Japan, bolstering the hopes of the U.S. public for a quick end to the war. However, the pilots, having completed their missions and facing a fuel shortage, had to abandon their aircrafts near Zhejiang, China. A young pilot, Jack Turner (Emile Hirsch), is saved by a young widow named Ying (Crystal Liu), who risks her...
12) Lancaster Skies
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Douglas Miller, a broken, solitary Spitfire ace who survived the Battle of Britain, transfers to Bomber Command, determined to take the war to the skies over Nazi Germany. Miller must take the place of a Lancaster bomber crew's cherished and respected skipper, who was killed in action. Though the crew is against him, he will try to gain their trust – and overcome the darkness in his past – to become the leader they so desperately need in the pivotal...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Brian Cox is Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory's life will be unexpectedly transformed through a newly found love for his baby grandson.
14) Rose Plays Julie
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Rose, a young adopted woman tracks down her birth mother only to be confronted by revelations that draw her into the dark world of her father.
15) Consent
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Young adult drama set in a private school which explores urgent ideas around privilege, prejudice and sexual consent. Archie and Natalie’s lives are changed forever after a drug-fuelled party, at which Natalie claims Archie assaulted her. She files an official complaint at their private school and an internal investigation is launched. Who will everyone believe?
16) Bleeding Love
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In hopes of reconnecting with his estranged child, a father (Golden Globe®-Winner Ewan McGregor) takes his now-adult daughter on a road trip to New Mexico in order to bring them closer together and sort out their strained relationship.
17) Rude Boy
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
This pseudo-documentary follows Ray Gange, a slacker from West London who works at one of the many sex shops in Soho. He is friendly with Joe Strummer, the frontman of the legendary punk band The Clash, and expresses his desire to tour with the group as a roadie. While Joe is receptive, his bandmates are less so -- but after Ray does their tour manager a favor, he's hired. Before long, Ray's bad habits take precedent over his responsibilities, putting...
18) Voodoo Macbeth
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Before Citizen Kane and The War of the Worlds, prominent Harlem Renaissance Broadway actress Rose McClendon convinces untested 20-year-old Orson Welles to direct Shakespeare's Macbeth with an all-Black cast in Harlem. The road to opening night proves to be a difficult one. This revolutionary 1936 production would change the world forever. Based on True Events.
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